Compassion Quotes · Page 72

“The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.”

— Allan Lokos

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

— Jim Rohn

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

— Kevin Rudd

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

— Sharon Salzberg

When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“To be compassionate, you have to forget your own comfort zone and live well because you live beyond yourself.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“he is not a member of us who does not show the mercy to smaller than him and respect to the older.”

— Anonymous

What if compassion is also profitable? What if compassion is also good for business?

— Chade-Meng Tan

“Feed your child ideas of peace, harmony and compassion but at the same time give them courage to defend their identity and…

— Abhijit Naskar

Usually, I take a hike for a while after submitting a column to Townhall. Too much of my insensitivity can cause emotional…

— Neal Boortz

“To be cold and incapable of pity is one thing; to have compassion and use it only when it's convenient is nothing…

— Stacey Jay

My family has been rooted and intertwined with Jerusalem for generations, and I am among those who say every day, 'May You…

— Isaac Herzog

I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical…

— Frederick Lenz

If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and…

— Eckhart Tolle

“We are always at our best when compassion enables us to recognize the unique pressures and singular stories of the people on…

— Desmond Tutu

It's kind of funny that I've been branded as the empathy lady when, really, what I'm doing is questioning and interrogating empathy.

— Leslie Jamison

This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers…

— Manfred Rommel

“We live in a world where close friends and family won't support, poor communities are neglected, and compassion and love are absent,…

— Victoria Barnes

It is my goal to win every time I play. But on the other hand, I also seek a balance of compassion…

— Novak Djokovic

“The yin to the yang of caring is that sadness is felt just that much more because that caring is so deep.…

— Anonymous

“Despite the fact that, the idea of religion has been filled by the human society with all sorts of garbage, and thus…

— Abhijit Naskar

Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural…

— Zhuangzi

I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of…

— Janice Mirikitani

“We are all the same. God has not chosen one group above another. When we dare to be aware, we will raise…

— James Van Praagh

Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer.

— Frans van Houten

“...perhaps they will remember Chris Creed and they will find their tolerance, their compassion.”

— Carol Plum-Ucci

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.

— Amy Chua

“He was a shitty husband, a cruel and distant father, and had absolutely no empathy for other human beings.”

— Alafair Burke

“All that is holding us together [is] stories and compassion.”

— Anne Lamott

I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map.

— Richard Davidson

“One moment of compassionate awakening you can reverse a lifetime of selfish sleepwalking.”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

— Louis Dudek

“Nobody can feel more compassion for a fibber than another fibber.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

— Thomas Aquinas

We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Angelina and Brad have shown me that caring for children is the greatest gift in the world.

— James Haven

You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.

— Jake LaMotta

I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Because of the lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.

— Lamentations 3:22